[PATCH] xfree86: split warning about missing identifier or input driver

Cyril Brulebois kibi at debian.org
Wed Jan 4 17:03:11 PST 2012


Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> (05/01/2012):
> Check for identifier first and bail if it's missing (also remove the current
> identifier check after we've already bailed due to missing identifiers)
> 
> If a driver is missing, warn but also say that we may have added this device
> already. I see too many bugreports with incorrectly shortened log files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Reviewed-by: Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org>

> helpful as people think they are, posting a cut-down log with only the error
> about mouse0 not beeing added (despite the success messages for the matching
> event file) is too common. Here's me hoping that that note may make people
> look twice at what they're cutting out of the log.

True that..

Mraw,
KiBi.
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